Catalyn – Is Your Daily Supplement This Complete?
In our last newsletter, we introduced the concept of supplementing one’s diet with vitamins and minerals. The basic idea behind this is to fill in the nutrient gaps that each of us likely has based on our personal food intakes. No one’s diet is perfect all of the time; and, unfortunately, some of the foods that we consume and assume to be healthy simply don’t have the same nutritional contents that they did fifty years ago. The Western diet is composed mostly of processed and refined foods. These foods are commonly eaten at the expense of nutrient-dense, whole foods. To complicate matters, we are regularly exposed to many environmental toxins, also having a negative impact on our health.
Therefore, it has become even more important for each of us to take personal responsibility for what we eat. And that, my friends, is the beauty of ‘whole food’ supplements. They are just like eating food because that is what they contain. When comparing multivitamins, examine the source of ingredients. Manmade compounds, found in typical retail multivitamins, often provide mega-doses of single vitamins and minerals, but Standard Process goes one step further – by delivering whole food ingredients. For example, Catalyn contains 15 whole food ingredients, including carrot root which supplies over 200 known phytonutrients. It’s the combination of these foods, not just a single component, which provides the vitamins, minerals, and micronutrients you need to help maintain optimal health. Synthetic multivitamins comprised solely of single vitamins and minerals do not have the full spectrum of components that whole food multivitamins offer.
Catalyn is both a multiple vitamin and trace mineral product. It contains living enzymes to promote digestion as well as specific glandular tissues to stimulate cell and tissue repair. It is ‘cold processed’, without heat, to preserve the integrity of these nutrients. Therefore, Catalyn works in a number of ways to: maintain the health and growth of new cells in your body, to keep your skin healthy and nourish collagen production, to promote overall cardiac health, and to support energy metabolism and digestion throughout the body.
In short, in this day and age, whole-food supplements have many benefits to offer each of us. So, the next time that you are at Urban to receive your needles, pick up a bottle, and try it for yourself. Acupuncture, to some degree, must work within the confines of the body and make use of the resources available to it. Whether treating pain or some other chronic, internal disorder, this is of paramount importance, and can make all the difference in the success of the treatment. Feed your body ‘real’ food and supply it with ‘whole’ food vitamins. You won’t be disappointed with the tangible and long lasting results.
-Steve Drugan, L.Ac